Book Descriptions
for In the Swim by Douglas Florian
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
Douglas Florian has created another outrageous collection of poems and paintings in the spirit of Beast Feast (Harcourt, 1994) and On the Wing (Harcourt, 1996). This time he has turned his attention to fish and other creatures of the undersea world. In the 21 lighthearted, teasing poems and full-page paintings of In the Swim, no rhyme is unrealized, no pun is left unturned. Florian's quirky, inventive humor is brimming with wit and child appeal. Verbal and visual humor extends, where appropriate, to the layout of text on the page; these and other elements of the poems and paintings give an edge of sophistication to the silliness of this collection in which the poems themselves are funny but words and art together are a fishy feast of humor. (Ages 8-11)
CCBC Choices 1997. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1997. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
Grab your snorkel and splash along with outrageous underwater creatures!
in the swim.
Children will delight in the playful, witty language of twenty-one lively poems while they learn about their ocean and freshwater friends.
in the swim.
Children will delight in the playful, witty language of twenty-one lively poems while they learn about their ocean and freshwater friends.
Publisher description retrieved from Google Books.
